Converting to Drupal

Hi:

I've been asked re building a website to handle text data - and to have most of this data come from a MySQL database for a non-cms application.

Idea is to set up the website (I have some ideas re this, having built a Drupal site lately).

Then, selectively import data from the existing MySQL database.
The important info on this concerns job vacancies. Descriptions of jobs, plus locations, little re requirements.

While I'm sure that can import data, I have little notion of how tough it would be to ensure it can be handled by Drupal (rather than just make a lot of table entries that don't do anything in Drupal - or, worse, mess up the site!).
For instance, with nodes, maybe need to add variables such as node ids - and, should do this automatically.

Having done an initial import, would want to ensure that as the main database is updated - with new entries added, some existing entries revised - can readily ensure the Drupal database is also updated, synchronising the data.

Hi,

I will be working on migrating a PN .764 install to Drupal 5.1 over the coming weeks. There are a few problems with the current documentation. I made a post there, but it was removed. Of course, since I don't remember what I posted, I will have to redo it.

Eric Aitala

I managed to successfully import my phpbb 2.20 into my Drupal 5.1 site. All is mostly well. The forums, posts and users all show up. However, there is now an error whenever anyone new tries to register. My guess is that somewhere in the Drupal database there is a variable that keeps track of how many users there are, and this variable is now wrong because we have 200 something users but when a new user tries to sign up, Drupal tries to stick him in somewhere around number 47:

I'm in the process of deploying Drupal for one of my companies (www.feedthehabit.com), but would like to explore transitioning my company's Web site to Drupal.

www.infusionsoft.com

That's only a part of it (an ugly part). We need to also manage several SEO/SEM landing pages, our commerce catalog (using our cart, or passing orders via API) and a corporate blog.

Can drupal manage several Web sites with disparate URL's and varying designs with aplomb?

Hi,

I am a newbee here. We are building a website and want to include Drupal as one of the module.We want to have a single sign on feature. We will be having a separate login module for our website and we will maintain PHP sessions.How can we transfer this information to Drupal so that session is mentained throughout?

Thanks
Sujata

Hello all,

I'm in the process of converting my site to 5.1 from 4.7, and I'm switching from using dashboard (old and busted) to panels (the new hotness). Problem is, I have a block with a menu that applies an "active" class to certain list items based on the node ID, the result being that the button pointing to the dashboard you're already on is greyed out. This worked great on 4.7 / dashboard.

This is done using the following:

  $node = node_load(array('nid' => arg(1)));

• if ($node->nid == "178") {echo "class=\"buttonactive\""; }>General Pathology
• if ($node->nid == "187") {echo "class=\"buttonactive\""; }>Clinical Pathology
• if ($node->nid == "307") {echo "class=\"buttonactive\""; }>Surgical and Cytopathology
• if ($node->nid == "295") {echo "class=\"buttonactive\""; }>Dermatopathology
• if ($node->nid == "183") {echo "class=\"buttonactive\""; }>Basic Sciences
• if ($node->nid == "184") {echo "class=\"buttonactive\""; }>Medical Informatics
• if ($node->nid == "308") {echo "class=\"buttonactive\""; }>Neuropathology